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Catholic Corner
PUBLISHED: 08:22 12 June 2014 | UPDATED: 10:03 12 June 2014
Latest news from our Ilford Catholic blogger
In January 2014, 42 year old Craig Findlay, a former New Zealand cricketer, hit 307 off 115 balls against a team of 15 year old school children.
The former school master was playing in a junior league and took his opportunity to make his mark on the game, despite the 15 year olds on the opposition side pleading with him to retire.
"It was coming off alright," he told the local media. "I was dropped early by some poor young fellow when I was on about 40."
The innings which included 27 sixes lasted 45 overs. At the halfway stage the youngsters asked him if it was maybe time to give one of the other guys a go. He said he "would think about it".
And then carried on.
After the match he was asked for this reflections on the innings. After pausing for thought he added: "My favourite six was probably one that sailed over the sightscreen."
There's no doubt competiveness is at the heart of sport and is crucially important for players, teams and clubs to progress – but there are always a few guys that take it a little too far.
The question is – where are you on the spectrum?
If you suffer from tense nervous headaches at the thought of losing, or get emotional for no reason on the field of play, you could also be suffering from the condition CCS – "Competitive Cricketer Syndrome".
For many years CCS was thought to effect only 1 in 50 men, but recent studies show it could be as many as in 1 in 5.
CCS can dramatically alter a persons behaviour and can strike at any time.
To find out if you are affected take two minutes to consider the following questions.
In recent times have you;
*Continued to bowl fast at a kid, cleaned bowled him and then celebrated like Freddie Flintoff circa 2005?
*Seen that the opposition have only 7 players but then opted to bat first and smashed them?
*Kept your pace bowlers on during a Sunday friendly to skittle a social team for under 50 runs?
*Sledged an OAP or a child?
*Boasted about your batting average to anyone that will listen?
*Determined to play despite clearly having an injury?
If so, you too could showing signs of CCS.
Generally CCS symptoms only appear on the field of play, effecting normal people only during games but in some extreme instances it can effect other parts of life as well.
Off the pitch symptoms can include driving to the game faster than anyone else, being the first in the bar and feeling the need to win arguments at all times.
Sadly there is no known cure for CCS and symptoms tend to get worse with age. However the upside for sufferers is that they are often completely comfortable with their condition.
As Findley replied when asked if he would bat in the same way if his son, aged 10 at the time, was playing: "I tell you, I also wouldn't cut him any slack."
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The American Museum of Natural History, in collaboration with Poets House, presents Nature and Poetry: A Conversation with E.O. Wilson and Robert Hass on Thursday, December 6, at 7:30 pm.
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass, author of What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World, engages in conversation with internationally acclaimed entomologist and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner E.O. Wilson, author of The Social Conquest of Earth. Sharing the stage for the third time in the course of their careers, these two extraordinary thinkers and writers discuss how art and science mix in their respective fields to raise awareness of the world around us. Hass and Wilson examine how the close observation of nature, which is central to both poetry and science, can inspire the conservationist in all of us.

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Formed in 2008 by members of Nanda Devi and Alter of Earth, CHASMA began as a side-project to experiment with yet another form of extreme metal. After writing and recording three songs, CHASMA released a demo tape with the French black metal label Aural Offerings and began performing live. After encouragement from Aural Offerings and the local Northwest metal scene, CHASMA made another recording that was released by Aural Offerings on tape and CD. After playing two years of shows with the likes of Wolves in the Throne Room, Bloody Panda, Trees, Thou, Nux Vomica, and Fell Voices, CHASMA guitarist Tony Komforty departed the project and was replaced by Klaus Maza of the LA crust band Sheeeeeeeep.
"Musically, we are influenced by new millenium-era French black metal and DC screamo," says the band, "and bands like Weakling, Joyless, Ameseours, and Majority Rule. We are influenced by the intensity and passion of our brotherhood as musicians and try to express that passion through dimension bending riffs. We don't really fit the black metal label; we consider ourselves either noir nouveau ['new black'] or bright metal."


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Winter Storm on the Way
Weather Watch 4 Update
A winter storm is currently located over Colorado and will be heading to W. PA, Sunday night - Tuesday. Expect accumulating snow in Pittsburgh in time for the Monday morning commute. It's a little too early for exact snowfall numbers especially with this type of highly variable storm.
The track of the storm and marginal temperatures will make exact snow totals difficult. Models have not come together and there is a wide range of solutions for this storm and snow amounts.
However, a general range of 2-4" in Pittsburgh with the possibility of 3-6", in some locations around Pittsburgh, does not seem out of the question. 3-6" for the ridges and 6-12" for the highest elevations may be in order.
Another 1-2" will be possible across the region on Tuesday. Bottom line... The storm has many variables and will change.
Make sure to take a peak at the forecast over the weekend.
- SAT: Partly cloudy 24 / 40
- SUN: Partly cloudy AM, PM clouds with late day snow 22 / 38
- MON: Snow showers 28 / 39


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(Photo: Meganthropus teeth on the left, modern man's on the right)
Following is an excerpt from "The Ape That Was" and discusses the controversy over whether "modern manlike" appearing remains of Meganthropus and Gigantopithecus were those of man or ape.
"Since Neanderthal Man is usually considered as a "race," the possibility that racial characteristics of this kind could in fact be the result of pituitary or other glandular disturbance, is greatly strengthened by the case of Maurice Tillet.
We thus have, in addition to the influences of diet and eating habits, the possible influences of glandular abnormality. It is conceivable that the giantism which has been found to characterize some early fossils of man, could be traced to the same factor. In this case history as opposed to genetics, in Portmann's sense of the terms, would possibly explain Gigantopithecus and Meganthropus, and so forth, as well as the grossness of some European forms; and any attempt to fit them into a genetic series would be a waste of time."The Supposed Evolution of the Human Skull
"According to Ciochon et al. (1990), Gigantopithecus blacki was 10 feet tall and weighed 1,200 pounds. This is speculative, since it is with some uncertainty that one reconstructs such a massive creature from a few jaw bones and teeth, however many. The way they arrived at this picture was first to estimate the size of the head from the jaw, and then to use a head/body ratio of 1:6.5 in order to determine the body size. For comparison they cite a head/body ratio of 1:8 for the Australopithecus afarensis specimen known as 'Lucy'.
The more conservative ratio for Gigantopithecus was arrived at out of consideration of the massive jaw as an adaptation to the mastication of fibrous plant matter (probably bamboo). Gigantopithecus was probably proportionally a markedly big jawed creature.
For the head shape they based their assumptions on the orangutan, since evolutionarily they place Gigantopithecus on the same line as the orangutan, finding a common ancestor for them both in Sivapithecus.
However, the orangutan could not serve as a model for the body, since it is unlikely that a 1,200 pound ape would be as arboreal. Therefore they chose the largest primates known, the gorilla and the extinct giant baboon Theropithecus oswaldi, as their models for the body.
(Photo:Rex Gilroy with a twenty five pound hand axe found near Bathurst, Aus.)They gave Gigantopithecus an intermembral index 108 (gorilla at 120 + Theropithecus at 95 divide by 2 = 108 rounded up - very scientific!) (Ciochon et al., 1990). "the average male Gigantopithecus had a skull that measured eighteen inches from the bottom of the jaw to the highest point of the sagittal crest (a male gorilla, for comparison, has a skull ten inches high)"
"Meanwhile, however, Weidenreich, (the "co-discoverer" of Gigantopithecus)who had retreated from Beijing to the American Museum of Natural History in New York, set about studying plaster casts of the four teeth. Because of the unusually large size of a few of the Homo erectus specimens from Java, Weidenreich came up with the notion that there had been a period of gigantism in human evolution, and that modern humans were the diminutive descendants of these giants.
In Apes, Giants, and Man, published in 1946, he argued that the Gigantopithecus teeth were humanlike, and that von Koenigswald had been mistaken in considering the animal an ape rather than a member of the human family tree. During von Koenigswald's wartime internment, Weidenreich's views became widely accepted."... The Ape That Was
An extract and photograph from the British S t r a n d magazine of December 1895, reprinted in W. G. Wood-Martin's Book, Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland, mentions a fossilized giant that had been found during mining operations in County Antrim, Ireland:
Pre-eminent among the most extraor dinary articles ever held by a railway company is the fossilized Irish giant, which is at this moment lying at the London and North-Western Railway Company's Broad street goods depot, and a photograph of which is repro duced here...
This monstrous figure is reputed to have been dug up by a Mr. Dyer whilst prospecting for iron ore in County Antrim.
The principal measurements are: entire length, 12 ft 2 in.; girth of chest, 6 ft 6 in.; and length of arms, 4 ft 6 in.
There are six toes on the right foot.The gross weight is 2 tons 15 cwt.; so that it took half a dozen men and a powerful crane to place this article of lost property in position for the Strand magazine artist.
Dyer, after showing the giant in Dublin, came to England with his queer find and exhibited it in Liverpool and Manchester at sixpence a head, attracting scientific men as well as gaping sightseers.
Business increased and the showman induced a man named Kershaw to purchase a share in the concern. In 1876, Dyer sent this giant from Manchester to London by rail; the sum of £4 2s 6d being charged for carriage by the company, but never paid.
Evidently Kershaw knew nothing of the removal of the 'show', for when he discovered it he followed in hot haste, and, through a firm of London solici tors, moved the Court of Chancery to issue an order restraining the compa ny from parting with the giant, until the action between Dyer and himself to determine the ownership was dis posed of. The action was never brought to an issue.
Unfortunately (as far as this writer knows), nothing more was ever heard of the Antrim giant or its owners.
Giant Human Bones Found in Middle East
Joe Taylor of the Mount
Blanco Fossil Museum sculpted this femur after receiving following letter:
Dear Christian Friends, I was born and lived in the Middle East from 1938 to 1968. I was Ain-Tell and Euphrates water works Engineer and was very interested in archaeology and history and had some very interesting findings, some of which may sound unbelievable.
I have brought with me a few silex arrow heads, etc., from the very battle-field where King Nebuchadnezzar and Pharo-Necho's armies fought. And what about the giants mentioned in Genesis?
In south-east Turkey in the Euphrates Valley and in Homs and at Uran-Zohra, tombs of about four meters long once existed, but now roads and other construction work has destroyed the spots. At two places, when unearthed because of construction work, the leg bones were measured about 120 cms (47.24 inches).
It sounds unbelievable. I have lived with my family at Ain-Tell for more than 14 years at the very spot where King Nebuchadnezzar had his headquarters after the battle of Charcamish, where I dug the graves of kings' officers and found their skeletons like sponge, and when you touch them they become like white ash, with spears and silex and obsidian tools and ammunition laying by.
This giant stood 14-16 ft tall. In his book Fossils Facts & Fantasies, Joe Taylor cites several accounts of giant human skeletons or depictions discovered in Egypt, Italy, Patagonia in Argentina, and the western US.
Giant Footprint Found in Solid Granite in 2002
A Ramona man has found what looks to be a footprint from Bigfoot. The giant fossilized footprint suggests the yeti could have once lived in the nearby mountains.
It's one heck of a climb to see the footprint; more than a thousand feet up a rugged mountain in the Cleveland National Forest. And James Snyder's house sits right at the bottom.
"I go out of my way to make a slip trail where nobody else has been and I was actually looking for gold," said Snyder.
That was back in February. But instead of finding gold on Gowers Mountain, Snyder found a giant fossilized footprint, at least it looks like one, embedded in solid granite.
The footprint was found in what becomes a creek bed during the rainy season. It looks as though something big crossed the creek a long time ago leaving its footprint behind.
What made it and when? Who knows. But Snyder is convinced it was a Yeti or sasquatch or Bigfoot. "When I saw it I told my buddy, I said I found Bigfoot up there," said Snyder.
He hopes someone who knows about this sort of thing will contact him. "But the neat thing about it to me, is most of your Bigfoots, or their casts or whatnot, come out of snow that you can't go back and check, or muddy soil, where as soon as you get a hard rain, well that's gone too.
This is, well we can look at it. We can study it. We can bring scientists here," said Snyder. But it won't be easy. The terrain at the top of Mt. Gowers looks like Mars, and it's about as hard to get to.
You can actually go see the footprint if you're prepared to walk an hour and a half, and that's only if you know where you're going. But it's certainly worth the trip. That is, if you're interested in seeing one really BIG foot.
Giant Human Legbone and Kneecap in Solid Rock
"At times, the discoveries made revealed "mysteries upon mysteries." In July, 1877, four prospectors were looking for gold and silver outcroppings in a desolate, hilly area near the head of Spring Valley, not far from Eureka, Nevada.
Scanning the rocks, one of the men spotted something peculiar projecting from a high ledge. Climbing up to get a better look, the prospector was surprised to find a human legbone and knee cap sticking out of solid rock. He called to his companions, and together they dislodged the oddity with picks. Realizing they had a most unusual find, the men brought it into Eureka, where it was placed on display.
The stone in which the bones were embedded was a hard, dark red quartzite, and the bones themselves were almost black with carbonization - indicative of great age. When the surrounding stone was carefully chipped away, the specimen was found to be composed of a leg bone broken off four inches above the knee, the knee cap and joint, the lower leg bones, and the complete bones of the foot.
Several medical doctors examined the remains, and were convinced that anatomically they had indeed once belonged to a human being, and a very modern-looking one. But an intriguing aspect of the bones was their size: from knee to heel they measured 39 inches. Their owner in life had thus stood over 12 feet tall.
Compounding the mystery further was the fact that the rock in which the bones were found was dated geologically to he era of the dinosaurs, the Jurassic - over 185 million years old. The local papers ran several stories on the marvelous find, and two museums sent investigators to see if any more of the skeleton could be located.
Unfortunately, nothing else but the leg and foot existed in the rock." Strange Relics from the Depths of the Earth--Jochmans
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Kelly Norman Ellis' Chisme Box [1]
Poet Kelly Norman Ellis, author of Tougaloo Blues and longtime P&W-supported writer and presenter of literary events, spotlights Chicago's Proyecto Latina and its famed Chisme Box.
One of the blessings of living and working in Chicago is the great ethnic and racial diversity. I am often humbled at the hard work of community arts organizations in my city and their commitment to representing this great diversity. These organizations bring quality art to the people for little or no charge and are essential relationships in building a literary community outside the boundaries of college classrooms and MFA programs. Because CSU [3] is a university serving mostly black and brown people, the importance of coalition building is critical to exposing these people to the work of writers who live and work in these communities of color. One such organization is Proyecto Latina.
Proyecto Latina [4] is a multimedia project that amplifies the success and impact of Latinas by sponsoring a reading series and a website that allows women to create a culture of self-empowerment, spotlight emerging and established Latina talent, create safe spaces in underserved communities, provide a virtual platform to chronicle stories, share resources, and start dialogue.
The third Monday of every month Proyecto celebrates the creativity of a Latina artist. The roster of writers is very impressive. Writers such as Xanath Caraza, Yolanda Nieves, Awilda Lupe Gonzalez have all graced the Proyecto Latina mike. The website includes advice for emerging writers, interviews with established writers, and information about the work of Latina writers in the Chicago community and abroad.
Also on the Proyecto Latina website is a photograph of the Chisme Box (Chisme means "gossip" in Spanish). It's described as "a regular at our monthly readings and she loves to interact with everyone. She loves the buzz of a crowded room and has the bad habit of eavesdropping on everyone, but rest assured she can keep a secret. Despite her name she prefers funny confessionals to mean-spirited gossip and is unapologetic about spitting out deposits that don't sit well with her." The Chisme Box is a way to share stories, information, wisdom, truth. As our writing program grows at CSU, I will be reminded of the Proyecto Latina's Chisme Box and the ways artist make worlds whereever we go.
Support for Readings/Workshops [5] events in Chicago is provided by an endowment established with generous contributions from Poets & Writers Board of Directors [6] and others. Additional support comes from the Friends of Poets & Writers [7].


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Julie Belanger / 111th Aerial Photo
Crop circles appeared in a field in Salinas, Calif., but no one knows where they came from.
Theories are cropping up to explain an intricate circular pattern discovered in a field of grass in California early Monday.
An aerial photographer spotted the giant crop circle in Salinas, Calif., from above on Monday.
Theories are cropping up to explain an intricate circular pattern discovered in a field of grass in Chualar, California field. KSBW's Tom Miller reports.
"We were on a photo flight this morning and came across it," aerial photographer Julie Belanger told NBC News. "It was so unique in the middle of a field."
Onlookers on the ground had to make do with climbing on their trucks on an adjacent street to try and get a better view, NBC affiliate KSBW reported.
"It looks like aliens to me," Manuel Madrid said from his vantage point.
But there were indications that the pranksters or artists were of earthly origin.
The MontereyHerald.com reported that guards from a South Bay security company were at the field Monday morning on behalf of a client whose identity they could not reveal.
Meantime, a YouTube video titled "Salinas Crop Circle Discovery" posted by user "Cannot Say" showed two men driving down the road at sunrise on Monday and then spotting a blinking green light in the field.
"Dude, this is a crop circle," said one of the men after they ran toward the light and allegedly discovered the flattened grass.
For her part, Belanger said she doesn't know who's behind the circle, or what their intent was.
"I don't know what it is supposed to be ... but it is beautiful," she said.
Mysterious crop circles appear in Washington wheat field
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Humanized mice to test vaccination against influenza virus via dendritic cells. Yu, Chun-I, 1975- (2008-06-11)Critical to the development of human vaccines is the availability of in vivo models of the human immune system that permit testing of vaccine efficacy. Here,we used NOD-SCID-β²m-/- immunodeficient mice which, when engrafted ...


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Are you looking for a refreshingly different, magical Christmas musical for your children's choir? Twelve Days of Christmas is certain to delight you with its ingenious story that combines the captivating images of the popular carol, The Twelve Days of Christmas, with religious symbols for each day, adapted in rhyme and riddle from an ancient poem.

Speaking Parts for Storyteller & 13 Short, Simple Rhymes

Grades K-8, Great as a Multi-Generation Program

Approximately 30 minutes

Song Titles:

Overture: Infant Holy, Infant Lowly; Away in a Manger: Silent Night (singing is optional)<lil>
Lullaby (trad. Welsh melody)

Behold That Star!

Cluckling Song (trad. Welsh melody)

On Christmas Night (trad. English melody)

Praise God with Trumpet/Sing, Choirs of Angels
<il>My Dancing Day (trad. English melody)

We Three Kings

 Finale: The Twelve Days of Christmas

Age Level: Children
Composer/Orchestrator: Jean Anne Shafferman/Anna Laura Page
Publisher: Alfred
Imprint: Alfred
Voicing: Unison
Difficulty Level: Easy
Length: 30 Minutes
Performance Pak contains 1 Director's Score and 10 Singer's Editions
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Credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
by Richard Wolf, USA TODAY
Posted on May 5, 2014 at 9:13 AM
Updated today at 9:13 AM
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the centuries-old tradition of offering prayers at the start of government meetings, even if those prayers are overwhelmingly Christian.
The 5-4 decision in favor of the any-prayer-goes policy in the town of Greece, N.Y., avoided two alternatives that the justices clearly found abhorrent: having government leaders parse prayers for sectarian content, or outlawing them altogether.
It was written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, with the court's conservatives agreeing and its liberals, led by Justice Elena Kagan, dissenting.
The long-awaited ruling following oral arguments in November was a victory for the the town, which was taken to court by two women who argued that a plethora of overtly Christian prayers at town board meetings violated their rights.
While the court had upheld the practice of legislative prayer, most recently in a 1983 case involving the Nebraska legislature, the case of Town of Greece v. Galloway presented the justices with a new twist: mostly Christian clergy delivering frequently sectarian prayers before an audience that often includes average citizens with business to conduct.
The court's ruling said that the alternative — having the town board act as supervisors and censors of religious speech — would involve the government far more than Greece was doing by inviting any clergy to deliver the prayers.
"An insistence on nonsectarian or ecumenical prayer as a single, fixed standard is not consistent with the tradition of legislative prayer outlined in the court's cases," Kennedy said.
Kagan, joined by the court's other three liberal justices, said the town's prayers differed from those delivered to legislators about to undertake the people's business. In Greece, she said, sectarian prayers were delivered to "ordinary citizens," and their participation was encouraged.
"No one can fairly read the prayers from Greece's town meetings as anything other than explicitly Christian — constantly and exclusively so," Kagan said. "The prayers betray no understanding that the American community is today, as it long has been, a rich mosaic of religious faiths."
The legal tussle began in 2007, following eight years of nothing but Christian prayers in the town of nearly 100,000 people outside Rochester. Susan Galloway and Linda Stephens, a Jew and an atheist, took the board to federal court and won by contending that its prayers – often spiced with references to Jesus, Christ and the Holy Spirit — aligned the town with one religion.
Once the legal battle was joined, town officials canvassed widely for volunteer prayer-givers and added a Jewish layman, a Wiccan priestess and a member of the Baha'i faith to the mix. Stephens, meanwhile, awoke one morning to find her mailbox on top of her car, and part of a fire hydrant turned up in her swimming pool.
The two women contended that the prayers in Greece were unconstitutional because they pressured those in attendance to participate. They noted that unlike federal and state government sessions, town board meetings are frequented by residents who must appear for everything from business permits to zoning changes.


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There's enough garlic butter here to drench every morsel of lobster meat—you'll want to serve crusty bread on the side to soak it all up.
- Yield
- Makes 2 servings
- Active Time
- 15 min
- Total Time
- 30 min
- 2 small garlic cloves
- 2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1/2 teaspoons finely chopped flat-leaf parsley
- 2 (1 1/4-pound) live lobsters
- Garnish: lemon wedges; sea salt
- N/A sea salt
- Preheat oven to 450°F with a large shallow baking pan in upper third.
- Mince and mash garlic to a paste with 1/2 teaspoon salt, then stir together with butter and parsley.
- Plunge lobsters headfirst into a large pot of boiling salted water (3 tablespoons salt for 6 quarts water) and cook, covered, 3 minutes from time they enter water. Transfer with tongs to a plate and let stand 5 minutes. (Lobsters will not be fully cooked.)
- Lightly crack claws, then split lobsters lengthwise and discard innards from body cavity.
- Remove tail meat from 1 lobster and cut crosswise into 8 pieces. Spread about 2 tablespoons garlic butter in one empty half shell, then fill that shell with all of sliced lobster and dot with 1 tablespoon garlic butter. Spoon about 5 tablespoons garlic butter into other empty half shell (for dipping). Repeat with remaining lobster.


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One of Britain's largest Model United Nations Conferences took place in Edinburgh this weekend.
Over 600 teenagers took part in the three-day conference at George Watson's College. Now in its sixth year, it is the biggest school-based MUN in Scotland and attracts participants from as far afield as Egypt and Turkey.
Alexandra Wingate reports exclusively from the conference.
What is an MUN?
An MUN is a replica of the United Nations. As well as having a secretary general and a number of chairs, the conference consists of a variety of committees, a security council, a general assembly and an emergency debate.
Participants are assigned a member state which they then represent in various discussions. The challenge is for delegates to accurately portray the political policies and moral values of their assigned country, which usually differs in varying degrees to that of their own nation.
How does an MUN work?
As in the real United Nations, an MUN is primarily split into different committees which are attended by one delegate from each state. In George Watson's case, these consist of economic, environment, health, human rights, media, and political, with as many as 48 countries represented in each committee.
After lobbying for support, delegates can put forward a formal resolution for discussion. The proposal is then debated with opportunities to add amendments before the final resolution is voted on by all members. This format is replicated throughout the conference, in both the smaller security council and the large general assembly attended by all delegates from all countries.
The debates are formal and procedures are carefully overseen by a number of chairs. Discussions are detailed and rigorous with a typical session lasting around one to two hours.


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Gas Price Without A "3" or "4" In It!
So there I am, meandering my way through the streets of the greatest city in the world (for you that don't know, that would be Sioux Falls, South Dakota USA) and I'm doing my usual surveying of what's going on around me.
Oh look, someone left a pair of old ratty tennis shoes out on their porch. Soggy now I bet. Oh, over there, a homemade Nativity scene on the lawn. Joseph looks just a little bit like Elmer Fudd. Must be an old set.
Oops, slow down a bit, don't want to hit that squirrel. And look at that car ahead of me there. Geez, I didn't know you could put that word on a bumper sticker for the whole world to see. The driver of that car needs a time out!
And then, like a bolt out of the blue, I saw it. Rarer than a unicorn (except apparently in North Korea, but that's a whole 'nother story). Up there in neon, right on 41st Street in Sioux Falls. I had to check it twice...no three times. Blinking, I realized it was true. Yes sir, what it stated was really there.
Oh, I know, the other tenth of a cent was added too, but still. There wasn't a 3 to be found (except on the price below it, after all this was Ethanol).
Gasoline, petroleum product, fuel, the life blood of my Malibu was under 3 bucks. Thank goodness there was a red light and I had to stop, because my eyes teared up and my hands were shaking. Under 3, less than a trey a gallon.
Should I stop. Should I pull in, lift that cold nozzle, untwist that gas cap, perhaps even take a picture (oh, sorry, I mean image, there's no such thing as pictures anymore). No. No, I wouldn't. I'm a gambler, I'd wait, wait until my tank was low. I mean, really low. And I'd gamble that one day soon, I'd drive by this gasoline heaven and the price would be even lower.
$2.98? Hey, we can dream can't we?


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Dominican Republic, Instituto Postal Dominicano, asks us to inform the designated operators of other UPU member countries that, owing to Hurricane Irma, a major Category 5 storm which hit the country in the early hours of 7 September 2017 with wind speeds of 290 km/h, all postal services have been suspended.
The Instituto Postal Dominicano thanks all designated operators for their understanding. It will inform them via EmIS as soon as the situation returns to normal.


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The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday that it is expanding the scope of the case against the Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, agreeing to decide whether the move violated the Constitution.
The move comes after a federal judge in California ruled earlier this month that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, whose agency oversees the census, violated the Constitution's Enumeration Clause.
The Constitution requires the enumeration (the accurate count) of every person living within the United States, regardless of each person's citizenship status. Native-born, naturalized, legal immigrants, and illegal immigrants all are supposed to be documented. However, the Constitution does not require the documentation of the citizenship status of each resident. The citizenship question presumably prevents the government from conducting an accurate count of every living person in the country as it would discourage immigrants from reporting their true status.
The Supreme Court said it will will hear arguments in the case in April and rule before its term ends in June.
For more details, you can find dozens of online articles about the legal issues involved by starting at: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=U.S.+Supreme+Court+Expands+Scope+of+Census+Citizenship+Question+Case&t=h_&ia=web.


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RIP Dr. Glenn Markoe: archaeologist/curator/author/researcher/my little brotherPosted July 29th, 2012
Tags: Cincinnati Art Museum, Glenn E. Markoe. archaeology, Merrill Markoe, Petra, Phoenicians
My brother died some time during the week of July 18. His health had not been great for a while because he had MS. But it was all complicated by the fact that he had been in a number of very bad accidents over the past decade that left him with assorted physical limitations. One year he broke his shoulder, the next year he broke his hip. About a year and a half later he broke his neck in a bad car accident. Still, he worked out every day on a tread mill in his office and his death was unexpected. I kind of thought he'd eventually tell me that he had simply willed his health problems into a minor inconvenience. He was 61. Read more


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OLYMPIA—Boating season is here, and the deadline for renewing boat and watercraft registration decals is right around the corner. All Washington state boat registrations expire on June 30.
Don't let an expired registration spoil your day; remember to renew before you get out on the water.
Boat registrations can be renewed online at the DOL website or in person at a neighborhood vehicle licensing office. Those who choose to renew at an office should make sure to note the registration number on the bow of the boat or watercraft and take that information to the office.
Due to budget cuts, DOL discontinued paper renewal notices for boats in 2010 and instead offered boat owners the opportunity to sign up to receive email renewal reminders. It's too late to sign up for an email renewal reminder for this year, but boat owners can sign up online at dol.wa.gov to receive renewal reminders by email in the future.
Skip a Trip — Go Online. The Department of Licensing has a wide variety of consumer services available online. Please visit our website at dol.wa.gov.


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disjointed wrote: Because now I can ask you, as a human, what makes you more qualified than your teachers and what makes you a worthy receptacle of termas as opposed to the other people in this forum.
You clearly have a lot of anger. It is misplaced and poorly expressed.
Honestly who gives two shits about what Ivo Kalushev is doing in Mexico? Hopefully, he is eating some nice tortillas, beans and rice, drinking mescal occasionally, and enjoying the diving.


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The 2009 Amsoil/Street Rodder - Road Tour Leg 7
The Sherm's Custom Plating Tour On the Road To The Golden State Nationals
The Classic Automobilia Road Tour ended on Sunday at the Northeast Nationals in Burlington, Vermont. While it was the end of one tour it was actually the beginning of my cross-country journey to begin the Sherm's Custom Plating Tour, which was scheduled to start five days later in Escondido, California, 3,000 miles from Vermont.
Over the past 14 years and 325,000 miles, I have made the crossing many times but it had been a few years since I'd needed to put together three or four 800-mile days in a row. I knew the AMSOIL/STREET RODDER Road Tour Chevy was up to the challenge and I felt that I still had a few long-distance runs left in me. I set my sights on the "Left Coast" and rolled out of the fairgrounds on Sunday at 3:00 p.m. I made a very brief stop at my home in Youngstown, Ohio, and on Friday afternoon at 4 p.m. I pulled into the parking lot of the kick-off hotel in Escondido, California. It was time to start the Sherm's Plating Tour and set out on the road to the NSRA Golden State Nationals in Sacramento, California.
Road Tour participants had already arrived at the hotel and I was greeted by Gary Matranga, president of Sherm's Custom Plating. I've known Matranga for years and when Sherm's came on board as a sponsor I invited Matranga to ride along for the week with me in the Road Tour Chevy. Friday evening we were special guests at Cruisin' Grand in downtown Escondido. It's a very cool event that is held every Friday evening during the summer. The streets are blocked off and filled with hot rods and collector vehicles. The weather was "California gorgeous" and it was a lot of fun.
Saturday morning we gathered at Randy Clark's Hot Rods and Custom Stuff in Escondido. Clark, his wife, Peaches, and some of the crew greeted us with coffee and pastries and a tour of their paint and assembly facilities. Hot Rods and Custom Stuff built the yellow '04 Brookville Roadster Deuce highboy Road Tour car. We took a minute and got the tour Chevy up on the lift for a quick once over before heading out. It was good to see that Clark and the folks at Hot Rods and Custom Stuff are still keeping very busy building some very high-quality vehicles.
From Escondido we headed north toward the L.A. area. Some of our Road Tour folks were scheduled to attend the Cruise for a Cure event at the Orange County Fairgrounds and others were bound for the Petersen Museum to attend the RM Auction. The Icons of Speed and Beauty auction included many very famous hot rods, show cars, and race cars of the last 50 years. It was exciting to be able to see cars like Ed Roth's Druid Princess, Tony Nancy's 22 Jr., the Little Red Wagon, Boot Hill Express, and many others as they went across the auction block. By 4 p.m. it was time to head to San Dimas, which is near Pomona. After dealing with the L.A. traffic, it was good to land for the evening. It had been an exciting day on the Sherm's Custom Plating Tour.
Sunday we had our morning driver's meeting and made the very short drive to the NHRA Wally Parks Motorsport Museum at the Fairplex in Pomona. We were greeted at the Museum by Director Tony Thacker and spent about an hour checking out all of the great cars and displays on hand. It is a place that I never get tired of visiting and there is always something new to view at the NHRA Wally Parks Museum.
From Pomona we traveled north to the Simi Valley home and shop of Ron Main. Main is a lifelong hot rodder and has in recent years become a fixture at Bonneville during Speed Week and holds the landspeed record for a Flathead-powered vehicle. He is currently partnered with George Poteet on the Speed Demon streamliner. When the Road Tour traveled to Bonneville last August we were able to see George Poteet win the Hot Rod Trophy for the week with a speed of almost 400 mph. At Main's shop on Sunday we saw both Flat Fire and Speed Demon, which had gone 436 mph five days earlier at Bonneville. Main gave us an in-depth look at what it takes to put together a team and a vehicle to make an attempt at a landspeed record. We were also honored to meet Mike Landy who, with his brother, Dick, had built the Flathead motor that pushed Flat Fire to the record.
We made the very beautiful three-hour trip to Morro Bay under sunny skies and warm temperatures. We stopped by Bear Metal Kustoms where we were greeted by owner Jason Pall and his family and crew. Pall is a young and very talented builder who has already made a mark for himself in the traditional rod scene. I was very impressed with the '51 Olds project that was in progress. It was a great wrap up to another fun day on the Sherm's Custom Plating Tour
After our Sunday evening in Morro Bay, the Sherm's Custom Plating Tour rolled on toward Fresno, California, early Monday morning. The drive across California Routes 46 and 41 was beautiful with rolling grasslands and winding roads. We arrived in Fresno around noon and had time to enjoy some lunch.
Our afternoon stop was at the new John Lawson Motorsport museum. Last year one of our Road Tours had stopped at Lawson's shop and we got a look at his unbelievable collection of hot rods. He has just recently moved much of his collection into a bigger facility and it was fantastic to see the cars in the new setting. There was plenty of room to walk around the 65 cars that were on display and to really appreciate the quality of each and every car. Lawson's love for the '32 Ford goes back over 50 years and is evident by the sheer number of Deuces in his collection. The quantity is amazing but the quality of each and every '32 is what takes your breath away. As always, Lawson was a gracious host and available to answer all of our questions about his vehicles.
From Lawson's new facility we made the short drive to good friend Charlie Lambetecchio's home just outside Fresno. Lambetecchio and his wife, Stella, have been fixtures on the West Coast hot rod scene for years and are former winners of the America's Most Beautiful Roadster award. He was inducted into the Grand National Roadster Show Hall of Fame this past January and is always a gracious host when folks come to visit.
From the Lambetecchios we drove across Fresno to the facilities of Wheel Vintiques. Wheel Vintiques has been a major supporter of the AMSOIL/STREET RODDER Road Tour program since 2001 and is our presenting sponsor. We have spent the last nine years rolling on various Wheel Vintiques products and each and every one has made our cars stand out. We were greeted by owners Sherry and Mike Stallings along with the entire staff. Sherry gave us a real behind-the-scenes look at what goes into all of the Wheel Vintiques products. The resurgence in popularity of the traditional wire wheels for rods is evident by the quantity of wire wheel products on hand. The early OEM line and the steel wheels are other very popular styles and of course their billet line is huge also. After our shop tour we were able to relax and enjoy some tasty Mexican food and wings with the good folks from Wheel Vintiques. It was a perfect way to end a great day on the Sherm's Custom Plating Road Tour
Our fun continued on Tuesday morning as we headed north to the town of Modesto. Just when we thought we had seen every beautiful '32 Ford on the planet we got to Tom Holmquist's and saw a collection of Deuces that represent every body style that was offered by Ford in 1932. We were greeted by Holmquist and his wife, Andrea, and his sister, Barb. With an ample supply of coffee, pastries, and cheesecake we spent the morning enjoying Holmquist's collection of beautiful vehicles.
The journey continued north on Route 99 to the town of Stockton and the Panella Trucking race car shop. Bob Panella and his son, Bob Jr., have been major figures in professional drag racing for many years. Bob Sr. successfully campaigned a '41 Willy's pickup in the early '60s and Bob Jr. continued their racing success with three consecutive national Pro Stock Truck championships over the past decade. Their shop continues to produce some the finest engines in the racing world. Bob Sr. 's love for Willys vehicles has grown into one of the greatest collections of that marquee in the country.
After our tour of the Panella Trucking race car shop, Bob Sr. invited us to he and his wife, Dorothy's, home just north of Stockton near Lodi. Their beautiful 88-acre ranch was breathtaking and we were all treated to a ride on his latest passion: a one-fifth scale railroad that runs on a 1-1/2-mile track covering the stunningly landscaped grounds of their home. It was a real Road Tour moment and we all beamed like little kids at an amusement park as Bob Sr. navigated the twists and turns on the Panella Railroad. Thanks to the entire Panella family for welcoming us to their shop and their beautiful home. It is an afternoon that none of the Road Tourians will ever forget.
With visions of riding Panella's train still dancing in our heads, we had our daily driver's meeting at 8 a.m. on Wednesday. It was a one-hour drive to Leonard Lopez's new Dominator Street Rod facilities in Tracy, California. Lopez and his crew built the '07 Road Tour Deuce coupe and it was great to see all of our friends at Dominator. As usual they have plenty of projects in the works and they are all first-class and it was informative to have Lopez fill us in on all the details of the vehicles in the shop.
From Dominator we headed north and arrived in Sacramento about noon. We were greeted at Sherm's Plating by Art Holman and Dave Dougherty. As partners with President Gary Matranga, Holman and Dougherty oversee the daily activities at Sherm's. We were given a full tour and a very informative talk by Holman about what it really takes to produce the quality of show plating that Sherm's is famous for. Everyone was amazed at the cleanliness of the shop and the steps that are taken to keep the facility environmentally safe. All of the Road Tourians received Sherm's hats and goodie bags. There was a drawing for a $150 Sherm's Plating gift certificate. Donna Avery was the excited winner.
We also visited the "toy box" of Sherm's president who had been traveling with me all week in the Road Tour Chevy. Matranga has been a car guy his entire life and has competed in all aspects of racing. He has his pro license in drag racing and is a member of the Bonneville 200 MPH Club. He has had some great street rods over the years and it was fun to see his famous Willy's street/race car, his collection of '32 Fords, vintage Harleys, and road racing Ducati motorcycles. We were also given a look at his latest project, a '32 Ford B-400 that is going to be unbelievable when completed.
It was a short drive to Del Paso Street where we were given a peek at the collection of vintage tin and incredible Flathead engines and parts owned by SO-CAL Speed Shop of Sacramento. It is hard to imagine that such a huge collection has been amassed by owners Joe Fazio and Dan Sanderson.
SO-CAL of Sacramento and Sherm's Plating then treated us to a great tri-tip steak and chicken dinner at the Uptown Caf. The food was delicious! After dinner it was a short drive to SO-CAL's very cool retail store on Del Paso where there was a party thrown in our honor Wednesday evening. Thanks to all the folks at SO-CAL of Sacramento for a great evening.
Thursday morning we made the short drive to Rio Linda and the fantastic shop of Tim Lohrey. Tim's Hot Rods has been producing high-quality street rods and customs for quite a few years. We were greeted by Lohrey and his wife, Christina, and daughter, Kaitlyn. Lohrey invited some local rodders and we were treated to a tour of the huge facility followed by a very enjoyable and very tasty sit-down breakfast. It was a great way to start what would be another incredible day on the Sherm's Custom Plating Tour.
From Tim's Hot Rods we drove into Sacramento and visited a legend in the custom car and hot rod world. Dick Bertolucci has been involved in customizing cars since the '40s and has worked with icons such as Harry Westergard and Sam and George Barris. We stood in awe as Bertolucci related stories of the early years in the hot rod scene. We were able to see his first early custom, a '38 Chevy that he was able to recently reacquire after many years. We also saw the incredible hot rods and customs that he has built over the last six decades. It was an honor and a privilege to be in the presence of such a legend and all-around great guy. Bertolucci is truly one of our last links to the colorful early years of our hobby.
From Bertolucci's shop it was a short drive to the warehouse museum of John Cox. Cox is a drag racer and car collector who has had the automobilia bug for many years. We were greeted by Cox, his son, Terry, and their crew who helps keep the collection in top shape. They also help campaign the vintage rail dragster that Terry drives at many of the vintage races. Cox's collection is so huge and diverse that it was hard to take it all in, in only a few hours. There were great brats on the grill and the Road Tourians enjoyed Cox's collection of automobilia and nostalgia plus the largest collection of '58 Chevys I've ever seen. One of my personal favorite parts of Cox's collection was the vintage slot car track. I spent many afternoons of my youth at slot car tracks and really enjoyed getting the controller back in my hand.
After our visit at Cox's collection, many of the Road Tourians stopped at the California State Railroad Museum in the Old Sacramento section of downtown. From there it was off to our hotel to try to digest the amazing things that we had seen that day.
It was a great weekend at the NSRA Golden State Nationals. The AMSOIL/STREET RODDER hospitality tent was a center of activity all weekend. It was the perfect way to cap off the unbelievable week we'd spent on the Sherm's Custom Plating Tour. Thanks to Gary Matranga and Sherm's for their help and support and thanks to the folks who greeted us along the way. It was a week that will go down in Road Tour history.
We have one more to go as the NHRA Wally Parks Museum Tour kicks off at Morrison Enterprises in Fife, Washington, and takes a very beautiful drive to the California Hot Rod Reunion in Bakersfield with many great stops along the way.


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I Have Read Books On The Possiblility Of World War Three And They All Pretty Much Share The Same View.
If There Is Going To Be A World War Three.
It Would Be Different From The Outcome Of World War Two.
Human Beings Would Never Had The Chance To Live As High-Tech Living Creatures Anymore.
It Should be Noted That After World War Two, People Had Gone Matured And Begin To Concentrate Their Knowledge On Positive Things, Like Technology (We All Love That Don't We.).
AT THAT TIME, There Is Still More Than Enough Resources e.g Oil, Coal, etc...For Us To Rebuild Our Home, Technology....Everything.
We Had Come A Long Way, Resources Had Drop To The Point That We Must Learn To Rely On Solar Now, At Least Sooner Or Later(We All Knew That Don't We?).
So The Saying Goes That When Everything Is Destroyed, There Would Not Be Enough Resources Left To Rebulid Even Half As Much Technology As We Have Now.
I Hate Those Immatured Terroist !
I Don't Know What They Are Thinking, I Saw An Old Lady Cheering In Parkistan When The News Broke Out.
I Don't Believe My Eyes, Not Man, But An Old Women!
What Had Americans Really Done To Deserve That ?
Please....No World War Three, At Least Not The Way It Was Executed Like World War One And Two.


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Herd stays hot
The Buffalo Bisons improved to 6-0 this spring with a 7-2 victory over the Memphis Redbirds (St. Louis) on Sunday afternoon from Port St. Lucie, FL.
MORE: Many of these players will be on TV tomorrow!
The Bisons hitters remained red hot this spring. C JOSH THOLE went 2-4 with an RBI and a run scored while INF LUIS HERNANDEZ was 2-4 with an RBI, a run scored and a stolen base.
OF JASON PRIDIE had an RBI-triple to go along with a stolen base and two runs scored. Buffalo's 2009 team MVP, OF JESUS FELICIANO had a pair of RBI and a stolen base.
On the mound, LHP BOBBY LIVINGSTON earned the win with four innings of two-run baseball. LHP ADAM PETTYJOHN tossed three-hitless innings of relief, striking out three.


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Location: rural McBain MI USA (near Cadillac MI)
Posted: Sat 05 Apr 2008, 13:00
Post subject: Update: Gateway 2000, and an HP
I booted the Puppy 3.98 CD on an HP Vectra VE, 64 MB RAM, some Linux swap,
with "puppy pfix=ram" just fine. (Love the new arctic coastline wallpaper...)
The console screen log entry about "Searching for Puppy files...", or whatever,
appears on both the Gateway 2000 and HP CD boots with "puppy pfix=ram".
At this point, however, the Gateway 2000 gets a
Kernel panic (something not syncing) every time, the HP does not.
On the Gateway, with Puppy 3.96, k126.96.36.199,
the CD boots work perfectly.
With Puppy 3.97, k184.108.40.206, the same Kernel panics occur as with 3.98.
So, is this a case where ancient hardware (1997 vintage, Pentium MMX, 200 MHz!)
boots with a newer kernel, but not with an older kernel?
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Location: rural McBain MI USA (near Cadillac MI)
Posted: Sat 05 Apr 2008, 14:43
Post subject: "menu.lst" not written.
I'm trying to install GRUB to the MBR and /dev/hda1
of my HP Vectra VE using
Puppy 3.98 CD (puppy pfix=ram), "System" > "Grub bootloader config".
I pick "expert".
I select 1024x768x16 (whatever)
I select "MBR"
That part seems fine, I guess.
Then I enter "/dev/hda1"
Presto! It writes all the "grub" directory and files
to "/dev/hda1", except "menu.lst"!
Tried a few times, a few different things,
but I just cannot get
"Grub bootloader config" to write "menu.lst",
whether the file already exists or not,
even though it writes all the others, apparently.
Thanks for any help, or fixes,
Eddie Maddox
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Posted: Sat 05 Apr 2008, 16:05
Post subject: Cannot nount XFS partitions
I'm currently using the 3.98 beta, and am trying to mount one of my XFS partitions. Whenever I try to use the Mount/Unmount utility, I receive this error:
Mounting /mnt/sda5
mount: unknown filesystem type 'xfs'
Mount failed
I receive the same when I try to manually mount the drive:
# mount -t xfs /dev/sda5 /mnt/home
mount: unknown filesystem type 'xfs'
The partition is detected, it just can't be mounted.
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Location: Yuba City, CA
Posted: Sat 05 Apr 2008, 17:24
Post subject: drive/partition designations
I installed both Dingo beta and barebones as manual frugal installs. I had a strange issue with drive/partition designations. My hard drive was mounted as sda1, sda2, and sda3. These designation are usually given to my flash devices plugged into my multibay card reader. sdc was still given to my mp3 player, but my multibay card reader was reassigned the designation of sro1, through sro4(If I had that many cards plugged into the reader).
Also I found that the pdev1 and psubdir parameters did not work unless there was a an actual pup_save file in the directory specified. When I want to load straight away into ram (no pup_save) I use pdev1 and psubdir without putting a pup_save in the specified directory. This prevents (at least with all other 3.x and up series pups and puplets) the loading of my pup_save which resides elsewhere. Barebones however, refuses to boot like this. My only option to test was to boot from CD then creat a 32mb dummy pup_save and place it next to my real pup_save, eject the CD, delete the pdev1 and psubdir parameters then reboot. This course of action brought up the expected menu choice asking me to choose the correct pup_save file or 0 for no pup_save file. It really should be considered to have puppy always offer to boot without a pup_save from frugal. If there is only one pup_save it should not be assumed Puppy found the correct one as many people often do not want to use one at all, especially if it means upgrading to a version they only want to test out for a while.
Lastly I still cannot get an eth port for any of my wireless card in any of the Dingo versions. I can get the driver to load, but no port gets created. Very strange.
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Posted: Sat 05 Apr 2008, 17:30
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Subject description: DotPUP didn't work
I have have tried to install a .pup package (MU's Puppy-Software-Installer). It first told me that .pup was superceded and that I needed to install a couple of others (dotpuphandler and puppybasic) before it would work. That was fine, but executing the .pup brought up a window with the package name and then did nothing else.
Am I trying something stupid because .pup packages no longer work at all? Or is PSI broken/redundant in Dingo?
Or is this a bug?
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Joined: 09 Jul 2007
Posts: 106
Location: rural McBain MI USA (near Cadillac MI)
Posted: Sat 05 Apr 2008, 18:01
Post subject: Re: Cannot nount XFS partitions
> integr8e
> Posted: Today, at 4:05 pm
> Post subject: Cannot nount XFS partitions
> ... I receive the same when I try to manually mount the drive:
> # mount -t xfs /dev/sda5 /mnt/home
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'xfs'
I have the same problem, but with "-t davfs",
which I reported in the "Dingo alpha7 feedback/bugs" thread:
> Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 4:27 pm
> Post subject: mount: unknown filesystem type 'davfs'
> Using Puppy 3.96:
# cd /
# cd mnt
# mkdir dav0
# mount -t davfs "http://..." dav0
mount: unknown filesystem type 'davfs'
No improvement in Puppy 3.98.
Eddie Maddox
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Joined: 06 Apr 2006
Posts: 63
Location: MN
Posted: Sat 05 Apr 2008, 18:25
Post subject: Xorg: no 1680x1050
Best I can do is 1280x1024:
The same xorg.conf file (listed below) gives me 1680x1050 on Fedora
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us" #xkeymap0
Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 470 300 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "NTS"
ModelName "MBW-SERIAL"
HorizSync 30-86
VertRefresh 56-74
#UseModes "Modes0" #monitor0usemodes
Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes0"
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
Option "NoAccel" "True"
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorKey" # <i>
#Option "CacheLines" # <i>
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvMCSurfaces" # <i>
#Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "intel" #card0driver
VendorName "Intel Corporation"
BoardName "82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050"
Bosco Bearbank
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Joined: 09 Jul 2007
Posts: 106
Location: rural McBain MI USA (near Cadillac MI)
Posted: Sat 05 Apr 2008, 20:29
Post subject: Shutdown hoards my CD!
"Shutdown" > whatever, the one to power down the computer...
When the screen said: "Power down.",
I pressed the CD drive Eject button to eject my Puppy 3.98 CD.
The drive would not eject my CD!
The machine (HP Vectra VE) was still powered on,
the screen said, "Power down.",
but pressing the CD drive Eject button
did not make the CD eject.
How could that be?
Oh, must be a Bug in there somewhere
keeping it from ejecting.
Oh, that reminds me, with Puppy 3.96 doing an install...
I was booted from HD,
but used the CD for the source of files for a second install.
After the files were copied,
and the install application finished using the CD drive,
I could not eject my CD then, either!
The CD drive Eject button would not work!
What's happening with all this CD hoarding
after the CD is no longer being used
by the application or system?
Thank you,
Eddie Maddox
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Joined: 21 Oct 2006
Posts: 560
Posted: Sun 06 Apr 2008, 03:22
Post subject:
Hi Barry, I am getting this error when trying to boot from a CD (also happened on Alphas) with my Intel's D201GLY2 MB. See screen shot. I think it only worked with the newer kernel.
Also any chance of the video drivers added to puppy please
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Joined: 27 Sep 2006
Posts: 380
Location: Wellington New Zealand
Posted: Sun 06 Apr 2008, 05:24
Post subject: Lost bottom toolbar and JWM menus
Subject description: Where did they go ?
I have had a full h/d install, grub menu and a wireless connection.
All going well with my usual install of firefox, gqview, gimp and other goodies,
desk setup the way I like it , with a reboot of each install of new prog.
All going well until I loaded a prog to view what's on my USB ports,
as this is not in the basic DINGO V4.00 I got from the repos and completed the
install only to find after a reboot that my bottom toolbar had gone also the MENU
opening. I can still get to the progs I loaded with the mouse control but I notice
that the style and size of fonts are changed .
How do I get the toolbar and menu back?
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Joined: 06 Apr 2008
Posts: 2
Location: Zagreb, Croatia
Posted: Sun 06 Apr 2008, 08:33
Post subject: Puppy400beta1 & Puppy 301
Subject description: Please change croat XKEYMAP to "hr" in xorgwizard (Croatia)
Current setting in XORGWIZARD refers to "cz" (Czech Republic)
I thought 3.01 was the best Puppy, but it looks like Dingo is trying harder...
That was the reason I registered to the forum right the way.
Kind regards from Croatia
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Joined: 24 May 2005
Posts: 785
Location: Connecticut USA
Posted: Sun 06 Apr 2008, 13:59
Post subject:
Subject description: Testing of Beta Results, mostly good.
I tried three different installations of Dingo Beta. I did two simple upgrades of a frugal installations. A simple upgrade is just deleting the old version of vmlinuz, initrd.gz, pup_###.sfs and zdrive_###.sfs and then copying the new versions of the files.
The first frugal installation was on my desk machine with Intel Celeron 2.5GHz with 1024 Megabytes of memory and a 40 gigabyte hard drive. The partition is ext2 filesystem, so Puppy used the entire partition and no save file. It worked fine.
The second frugal installation was on a Intel Classmate (500 Mhz and 512 Megabyte memory). The puppy installation is on FAT32 partition and uses a save file. Once again, the update when well. The only problem is the Classmate small screen. Dingo Beta restored all the screen icons. The small screen gets a bit crowded. One has to remove the un-used icons (Play, Draw, Spreadsheet, etc.) to get some room. I also had to set the JWM tray/bar to autohide. Once again for more screen. I had changed my screen background to the one of the first PupEee (an Eagle in flight). The new installation did not change the background.
The third installation was a full installation on an available empty ext2 partition on the desktop hard drive. The first attempt the "Universal Installer" just stopped and exit after selecting the drive and partition to be used. I tried a second attempt and got the same results. So on the third attempt, I had Pprocess up to watch what was going on. On the third attempt, the Universal Installer worked perfectly fine. A version of Murphy's Law (when one can track down the cause of a problem, everything will work correctly) was invoked by the system. I had selected "update" Grub option. It work, but the actual Grub loader was on another partition so no changes were made. The /temp directory did have the "NewGrubText" file so it was easy to cut and paste the correct information into the menu.lst file of Grub. I have found always to check for Grub changes when modifying Grub after a new installation.
Bottom line, Dingo Beta updated correctly and my normal Grub changes procedures worked. Dingo Beta looks like we are going in the correct direction for success.
Enjoy life, Just Greg
Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much
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Joined: 28 Nov 2005
Posts: 2125
Location: Maine, USA
Posted: Sun 06 Apr 2008, 15:03
Post subject:
Any plans for a "retro" release of dingo? These newer kernels just do not like this laptop.
Maine, USA
Asus eeepc 1005HA PU1X-BK
Frugal install: Slacko
Currently using full install: DebianDog
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Joined: 11 Nov 2005
Posts: 1552
Location: florida
Posted: Sun 06 Apr 2008, 15:26
Post subject:
floborg wrote:
* There is what looks like a battery monitor in the JWM tray. It isn't displaying anything. I am not using a laptop. Check it out (attachment).
Does lsmod show the apm module loaded? Also dougal's update to asapm didn't make it in to beta1.
prit1 wrote:
6 - When I shutdown, it does not give me an option to save. It directly gives me a message that "session not saved". I ran using frugal and not from a cd.
I noticed this yesterday on alpha7. Does not happen if the psubdir option is used.
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Joined: 25 Oct 2007
Posts: 194
Location: Fort Worth, TX
Posted: Sun 06 Apr 2008, 16:37
Post subject:
kirk wrote:
floborg wrote:
* There is what looks like a battery monitor in the JWM tray. It isn't displaying anything. I am not using a laptop. Check it out (attachment).
Does lsmod show the apm module loaded? Also dougal's update to asapm didn't make it in to beta1.
Output of lsmod:
# lsmod
Module Size Used by
parport_pc 31716 1
lp 12616 0
parport 35528 2 parport_pc,lp
snd_mixer_oss 16896 0
snd_es18xx 33332 0
snd_pcm 75656 1 snd_es18xx
snd_page_alloc 10120 1 snd_pcm
snd_opl3_lib 10624 1 snd_es18xx
snd_timer 22020 2 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
snd_hwdep 9220 1 snd_opl3_lib
snd_mpu401_uart 8320 1 snd_es18xx
snd_rawmidi 23584 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8460 2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd 52068 9 snd_mixer_oss,snd_es18xx,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,sn d_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 7520 1 snd
usblp 14080 0
apm 20304 0
i2c_piix4 8716 0
i2c_core 22032 1 i2c_piix4
tulip 51360 0
intel_agp 24860 1
agpgart 34128 1 intel_agp
fuse 44052 0
unionfs 83732 1
nls_iso8859_1 4224 1
nls_cp437 5888 1
usbhid 24928 0
usb_storage 83264 0
uhci_hcd 24076 0
usbcore 127128 5 usblp,usbhid,usb_storage,uhci_hcd
sr_mod 17188 0
ide_cd 39200 0
cdrom 36768 2 sr_mod,ide_cd
squashfs 46856 1
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